2011 Indie Lit Awards - It's Not Too Late for Your Nominations!

The 2011 edition of the Indie Lit Awards is open for nominations until December 31st, which means you still have a few weeks to get your favourite reads of the year submitted for consideration.

A truly 'independant' literary award, the nominations are open to readers only (i.e. no authors, publishers, or publicists). The only rule is that the book must have a 2011 release date. You can nominate up to 5 books in each genre. The books with the most nominations will make the 'Long List' so don't worry if your favourites have already been nominated - that's a good thing!

I'm a Voting Member this year for the Speculative Fiction category, which means I won't be nominating, just reading the Long List! To help kickstart those of you who have yet to make a nomination, here are a few notable sci-fi, fantasy, and horror books of 2011 (with those on my read/to-be-read lists highlighted):

• 11/22/63: A Novel by Stephen King (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
• A Dance with Dragons by George R.R. Martin (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Award)
• A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Aftermath by Ann Aguirre (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Aftertime by Sophie Littlefield (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (Amazon Best Books)
• Alien in the Family by Gini Koch (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Among Others by Jo Walton (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• An Apple for Zoe by Thomas Amo (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Basilisk by Rob Thurman (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Blackveil by Kristen Britain (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Blood Challenge by Eileen Wilks (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Bloodrights by Kristen Painter (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Cast in Ruin by Michelle Sagara (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Clockwork Rocket by Greg Egan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Dead Reckoning by Charlaine Harris (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Deadline by Mira Grant (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Divergent by Veronica Roth (Goodreads Choice Award)
• Don't Breathe a Word by Jennifer McMahon (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Dreadfully Ever After by Steve Hockensmith (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Dreadnaught by Jack Campbell (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Eat Slay Love by Jesse Petersen (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Embassytown by China Mieville (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Flashback by Dan Simmons (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Fuzzy Nation by John Scalzi (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Ghost Ship by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Ghost Story by Jim Butcher (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Grave Dance by Kalayna Price (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Graveminder by Melissa Marr (Goodreads Choice Award)
• Hard Bitten by Chloe Neill (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Heartless by Gail Carriger (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Hit List by Laurell K. Hamilton (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Hounded by Kevin Hearne (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Hunt the Moon by Karen Chance (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Inheritance by Christopher Paolini (Amazon Best Books)
• Legends of Shannara by Terry Brooks (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Magic Slays by Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• My Life as a White Trash Zombie by Diana Rowland (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Naamah's Blessing by Jacqueline Carey (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• One of Our Thursdays is Missing by Jasper Fforde (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• One Salt Sea by Seanan McGuire (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Pale Demon by Kim Harrison (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Phoenix Rising by Pip Ballantine & Tee Morris (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Raising Stony Mayhall by Daryl Gregory (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Ready Player One by Ernest Cline (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Rising Tides by Taylor Anderson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• River Marked by Patricia Briggs (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Rogue by Trudi Canavan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Rule 34 by Charles Stross (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Second Grave on the Left by Darynda Jones (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Seed by Ania Ahlborn  (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Shadowfever by Karen Marie Morning (Goodreads Choice Award)
• Silver Shark by Ilona Andrews (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Snuff by Terry Pratchett (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Spellbound by Kelley Armstrong (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• That Which Should Not Be by Brett J. Talley (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Allow of Law by Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Cypress House by Michael Koryta (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Final Evolution by Jeff Somers (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Kingdom of Gods by N.K. Jemisin (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The King of Plagues by Jonathan Mayberrry (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Last Werewolf by Glen Duncan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Magician King by Lev Grossman (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Night Eternal by Guillermo Del Toro (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Night Stranger by Chris Bohjalian (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Omen Machine by Terry Goodkind (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The President's Vampire by Christopher Farnsworth (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• This Side of the Grave by Jeaniene Frost (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Twilight's Dawn by Anne Bishop (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Vortex by Robert Charles Wilson (Amazon Best Books)
• what the night knows by Dean Koontz (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• When She Woke by Hillary Jordan (Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Wonder by Robert J. Sawyer (Amazon Best Books, Goodreads Choice Nominee)
• Zone One by Colson Whitehead (Goodreads Choice Nominee)

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